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twice as we speak to the countries foreign minister. ah. hello them laura kyle. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up with russian forces, face stiff resistance from the ukrainians in the battle for back. what we report from the front lines, are you new military is good now with the coast washing policies that might such great gains around solid or in the knowles? a completely in circle, the city and fairs of a demographic crisis, china's population declines for the 1st time in 60 years, coupled with an economic slowdown. ah,

with awesome pakistan where inflation has led to a deepening food crisis. the price of wheat has skyrocketed since the ukraine war disrupted supply chains. victoria gate and b reports. these low income workers in islamabad, scramble to buy a bag of government subsidized flour. inflation disproportionately affects the poorest and society because pakistan, many is struggling with the rising cost of living while goes out. it's been hugely difficult to live on our earning. if i'm a daily laborer, i have to queue up for up to 3 hours to purchase, subsidized long with the regular prices are unaffordable. soaring, inflation is just one challenge. pakistan is also facing a foreign exchange crisis. these importers are protesting outside a bank about a shortage of dollars. they can't get credit to pay for the goods they're importing . it means thousands of containers packed with essential food items, raw materials and medical equipment. a stock of the port in karachi,

the government done without like a regular be demand, the government mediately for white dollars so that we can get our consignment released from the port and prevent huge losses in shipping. future importers have been in the business for 35 years, say they've never seen at this bad weatherbug abuse got more. you. there may be a barely $25.00 days of stock left. if the dollars are not released immediately, they'll be an immense shortage of grain during ramadan. meaning further hardship, pakistan is still recovering from last year's historic flooding. at its peak, more than one 3rd of the country was under water. at the $1700.00 people died and damages are estimated at nearly $40000000000.00. last week, the united arab emirates agree to defer the repayment of a $2000000000.00 loan and provide an extra $1000000000.00. but with the national debt running at nearly 90 percent of g d p. pakistan is appealing for more help from the global community, victoria gate and be al jazeera. let's take a closer look now at the state of pakistan's economy. in december,

inflation rose 24.5 percent compared to the previous month, driven by high food, food, and fuel prices. foreign exchange reserves plunge to $4300000000.00, which covers less than 3 months of imports. and on top of that, the government needs to raise more than 26000000000 dollars this year to we pay foreign debts on standing by for us in divorcee as pakistan's for a mister bellow while booth has the diary he'll be speaking to. i did ask as to james bay's so james, over to you? yes, i as you say, i am joined by pakistan's foreign minister who i last interviewed in depth in september. back then your country was devastated by the floods. we'll talk about the food crisis in a moment. but earlier this month there was a conference in geneva was speaking to the head of the u. n. development program. earlier on he said he's never been to one of these conferences to raise money where you actually managed to raise all the money. so that actually is the good news. yes,

but at 1st full, i'm really happy to back and al jazeera and absolutely right. last week here in geneva, we had a resilient box time conference. and when we wanted to turn sort of this catastrophe into an opportunity for bucks the not only to bill back, but bill back better. and we are very grateful to the international community for standing, a solidarity with boxer, we managed to cross our own target or ask of $8000000000.00. and we got a sort of $9000000000.00, a class of pleasures and loans out of this a conference which is 50 percent of our reconstruction and rehabilitation need the other 50 percent or will be funded through the federal and provincial governments of pakistan. so that is sort of a foreign policy success, a climate success. and we're hoping that going forward, it'll form a sort of model for other countries that experience, clammy, catastrophes on the scale that box, that has. we have to move beyond sort of humanitarian and humanity in relief and see how we can concentrate on development for climate resilient developments. it's

a new step in the right direction. that's the good news. the bad news is the situation on the ground right now in pakistan. the economic situation, the food crisis, the price of flower, i believe you got armed guards now, guarding wheat delivers discontent is rising, or you are it, can you governments to buy? so as far as the economic challenges that pakistan is facing, we're not alone in facing these economic challenges. everybody across the world are, is dealing with the economic impact of the coven pandemic. we've still feeling the consequences of that. the consequences of the russian ukraine wall and the associated sanctions. the implication of that on, on the world economy on inflation and in the pakistani context, the thing that sort of particularly made this the perfect storm was this climate

catastrophe that was the worst in our history. that the problem is your, the government in the chair. now, these are all factors and you're right there all factors, but the public are going to blame you are they not. busy on the public have a right to be upset to be angry as they have that it is our responsibility as the government to meet their needs. but it's important that i explain the situation. so as far as the topics that i mentioned, those are international aspects that, that the impact of the flooding on our crops are important to understand the agriculture economy as the backbone of fox, the box phoney economy. we had 5000000 acres of standing crop. i rice crop and our cotton crop mostly destroyed during the flooding. and in november we started our wheat sewing season, but obviously with much of pakistan either still under water or lots of areas where the water had receded, still being too damp for us to go ahead with our wheat crop. i. although in much in many places we did duke that obviously will affect the food security situation.

luckily, or we'd been working already. the government had been before the floods engaged with importing wheat. and we had a consignment come in recently from russia before the war with ukraine. we used also import wheat from ukraine, which is why in my conversation with our european friends, our american friends are constantly emphasized from the start of this conflict. that the, the unintended consequences of this conflict is not only are inflation energy and security, but food insecurity for which will outside li impact the developing world. as far as the bikes funny situation is concerned, we believe that the, the stock that we do have is, and now enough to meet our needs and the situation should improve in the coming days. let me ask you too about the situation in your neighboring country. afghanistan, when we last spoke in september, you said the way forward is cooperation with afghanistan and the international community. can i tell you what's happened since then?

you're well aware, not only of girls banned from schools. female students are banned from university female aid workers, friends, yos, can't go to work anymore. and in the last 20 for 48 hours, the seem to be new restrictions on women in the media and the media. in general. it's all going the wrong way, isn't it? what do you do now? well, i understand that the situation is very or concerning, but i'm pretty sure that the international community must appreciate that. the only way to solve these concerns is to engage or we may not like some of the developments, particularly around girls education pakistan has publicly expressed its disappointment as as much of the muslim world, the muslim world is move on to moved on from such a from from, from this approach and we pride ourselves on, on the progress that you're seeing across the muslim world, visa be women's rights. but the solution is to engage the afghan government and try and convince them to live up or to their expect that their, their promises to the international community. and that is exactly that pakistan's

approach and many other countries, the other multilateral institutions approach. but that engagement isn't working, is it a min? and for example, when you talk about the scanner or the in touch with museum, their interest in afghanistan, one of these measures was, you know, more draconian steps. or when was announced, the very moment when the un security council was meeting in new york. that wasn't a coincidence. that was a deliberate snub. was it not? i don't know how far is that look at? no one appreciates or welcomes this development or we will all like to see at the of the an interim government live up to its commitments, to the international community. whether it is to do with women's rights, whether it's to do with, you know, the issue of terrorism at the question is, how do we solve it? and i believe that turning our backs and watching our hands of he glanced than ignoring the situation, isn't the solution we require continued engagement? absolutely. we've not been successful so far and achieving all our aims within the over on context. but i'd like to remind you that it's about been almost over

a year, or since the new government has taken over our and it'll take time for us to achieve our goals. but i don't believe that turning our backs and disengaging is an option . it's certainly not an option for pakistan who share such a long and porous border with our ne, was in of honest than with serious concerns with the issue of terrorism. and let's be honest. the people of afghanistan are victims of terrorism and the people of boxes than a victims of theirs. neither, neither will will be successful in our efforts against terrorists. and neither will the van regime be successful in their f as against terrorism. if we don't have some sort of cooperation and engagement and that's a priority for us. and finally, if i can ask you quickly, how much leverage jubilee pakistan has in this, because since the talent took over, i mean you've had an attack on your embassy in cobble, your ambassador had to be evacuated for his safety and the activity of the ttp, the pakistan taliban as actually increased so that things are not going well in pakistan

as a result of the change in afghanistan, i think fucked. his son's leverage over the taliban over the organist town has by and large, been exaggerated by the international community in the past. and up until the state, having said that, where neighbors our own, we couldn't separate if we wanted to and are the only way to enhance leverage on both sides is to continue to engage with them. as far as the attack of my head of mission in cobble, absolutely, it's a can damnable at an act. and the avalon authorities have taken action. they're investigating. i haven't recalled my ambassador from of honest on, in the context of that. he was due back anyway for some briefings and dialogue that's on going and i hope that we will have the security necessary to send him back soon as far as the ttp is concerned, i believe that the previous government had the wrong approach. it's policy of a p, as piece meant to was the file a bond has created problems for the people of pakistan. that approach has been

ended by the new unity government. we recently had a national security meeting of the top military and political leadership of our country where it was decided that we would not tolerate a terrorist groups. and anybody who violated the law in pakistan for a minister. thank you very much for joining us again on al jazeera and braving the very snowy conditions here in davos. ah, russia is intensify attacks in easton, ukraine as important as the landscape says there is no place that is not covered with blood around back much. moscow is trying to secure a rad victory and the dumbass region after months of fighting shall strap. that is that we hearing a lot of heavy shelling as you can imagine. i'm showing that it's increased in recent days. interestingly, to put a timeline on it. you can say that

a lot of this fighting has actually increased since we saw ross and forces make gains in and around the town of solid, our, which is north of back, moot in that direction. we understand now according to ukrainian, the ukrainian military that russian forces are trying to win circle that city of buffalo. and interestingly, since we've been here this morning, the town of kelly schiffer which is to the southeast of it, is also getting heavily shell. there's a lot of heavy, heavy fighting being heard there. we've seen smoke rising, some of the process we speculate could well, i've been asked strikes interestingly in the last 10 minutes or so. we've seen certainly what the ukranian military tell us will ukrainian jets in this area. they was still throwing out those flags that chaff time to try and deter any kind of heat seeking weapon that went after it. that was aimed at it. we understand that that is just a precautionary measure that the ukrainians take. um, of course, trying to avoid friendly fire,

but it's the 1st time that we've seen jets in this area. we were in bar moot yesterday, the scenes of also destruction. they're a terrible situation for the estimated 2000 or so civilians still. they're refusing to leave mostly the elderly in the firm saying that they've got no where to go. that the town has had no running water since october, no electricity since oldest. so you can imagine in these kind of conditions, these winter temperatures, how difficult that is. there was a lot of heavy shelling of the center of the city as well as on the outskirts we've seen quite a lot of injured brute brought in to this point over the last few hours. this is injured. ukrainian soldiers, they basically made a vax out of back moot. and some of these surrounding towns brought 2 ambulances here and taken to hospitals, back from the front line. let's say we were in bach moot yesterday. and this is our report. how people enjoy the shilling and

destruction defies. belief. russian artillery has almost completely destroyed the town of thought. not most of the 70000 people who lived here have fled. it's even rare to see ukrainian soldiers in the open exposed to shelling on the streets. oh oh my cousin, probation was going up and walked up the door. sir, when we talk about the direction of battle mountain. so selling your frontal, we're talking about the whole front line where they're trying to get into the city from every direction, from, from the north, from the east and the south. are the intensification, the shelling of back moot is obvious. russian forces are about a kilometer in that direction. the ukrainian military is scared now. that because wasn't forces of made such great gains around solid are

in the north. they're now trying to completely encircled the city. as we walked back up the street more rounds explode, close by. we begin filming, and 2 more come in around a 100 yards away. the city we run for cover skidding here. our camera on the col dashboard captured the moment 2 of watts believe to have been a 120 millimeter motors slammed into a residential building across the street. the force of the blast broke the windscreen.

it's a similar story on the other side of crane, an army a moving to push back a russian evolved se another and of colon of the situation is quite intense, all aerobic moat. we have information that the russians have sent reinforcements to war. the city on the bottle tow mazata was customers ukraine and artillery fires from nearby feels the battles for bustled is intensifying by a day. chan, stratford al jazeera of mode for the next 3 years, we'll say the russian army undergo a major overhaul. defense minister announced the timeline as he fisted trips at the armed forces headquarters in easton, ukraine. sunk a shampoo, thanked the service men who presented them with awards alhashan half more from moscow. calling to the russian defense minister. that is going to be

a drastic change in the army between 20232026. this is going to be a plan to 1st of all, boosted on that all soldiers to 1500000 and also create 2 new districts. the more school district ability, broad district decides enhancing different sectors of the admitted 3, the ground courses aerospace at navy. so it's mainly kind of re boosting their army . this is kind of, if we want to take it into context for why the project started with the beginning of this year, we can pick it back to the war with the launch of the water ukraine. everything became, became miniaturized in, in russia. told him, says as wally police stopped as ambassador to israel from entering the al axa mos compound in the east occupied east jerusalem in response to foreign ministry has summoned to israel's ambassador. and a man among con has more the jordanian master. and one of the seniors shakes

of the alexa moscow were visiting the site. they were actually inside the compound room incident, took place, and israeli police official actually shoved one of the top. good not, i have to say the jordanian ambassador. there was then a heated discussion, the jordanians say that they can visit the alex and boss compound whenever they want. they will then held briefly, not held, but they were briefly stopped from entering was to put these really policed, tried to get permission for them to go in. this actually angered the jordanians who then left this site. now this goes to the heart of the relationship over jordan is wrong. when it comes to the alexa most come most compound, there is something called the status quotes and agreement. effectively that allows the jordanians to be the custodians of fat compound. they say they do not need is really police permission to enter the site. these ready police actually issued

a statement. they said in a we note that the had the group gone through the standard preliminary chord nation procedure with the police. any delay in the ambassador's entry to the temple mount would have been prevented. it's all regrets that there are false reports about this . this is referring to some of the news that came out immediately after the incident. however, the jordanians have reacted. they've summoned these really ambassador, no doubt, to reiterate the fact that the jordanians do not need police permission to enter the alexa mos compound and to find out what happened. a 40 year old palestinian man has been shot and killed by israeli forces. handy shaka up the abu di egg an officer with the palestinian authority. police was shot just north of hebron any occupied west bank. his body has not been released by israel. abu die as the 15th palestinian to be killed by israel forces this year. china's population has declined for the 1st time and 60 years economists a warning of

a demographic crisis with the country not being able to support it's rapidly aging population. katrina, you reports from shanghai county and northern china chow, to me has lived in bike, our one village. his whole life. he says the streets here are quieter than they used to be. most young people have moved to beijing, 65 kilometers away. you know, we're all, there are more and more all people now to made it all people in this bill is earl ogle. 5 passed away recently due to the cove it. there were over 80 years old. the situation is similar in many parts of china, where increasingly, debts are outstripping births. the population shrunk 585-0000 people in 2022. it's the 1st decline since 1961, a year of great famine in china. economist, se strict corona virus measures and poorest until late last year,

accelerated looming, demographic crisis, or the pend alley has been the biggest, the constraints for people's family planning in the past 3 years. and a lot of chinese people believe that the vaccination would be bad for fertility. so many families have been postponing. and at one a comes to the economic prussia. it was even bigger problem for urban residence. as the government abandoned, it's one child policy in 2016 and now allows families to have up to 3 children, but many are unwilling sighting soaring housing prices and education fees. meanwhile, china's workforce, a key driver of economic growth is rapidly aging. analysts predict the elderly will make up one 3rd of the population by 2050. in by del one. most of the residents are retired. the cost of living in villages like this is far less than the biggest city, the locals tell us the problem is being able to find a stable income. many of the young people who born here,

hadn't forced to leave in order to secure a job. job tuning says he understands, he and his wife have no children, but still struggle to make ends meet for many here, living day to day having to support a large family has little appeal. katrina, you al jazeera, by del, on shanghai county, china funerals have been held in nepal for some of the victims of sunday's plane crash. the airlines flight went down there, the tourist town of parker, 72 people were on board but own and all but one body has been recovered. the plains black boxes were found on monday. the government has set up a panel to investigate the cause of the crash. a preliminary hearing for a class action against indonesia, drug regulate her health ministry, and several pharmaceutical companies is underway. nearly $200.00 children died from

acute kidney injury last year. after taking contaminated medicine, $25.00 of the victims families assuming the manufacturers and suppliers of the cold and flu syrup. jessica washington has more from jakarta. apologies, we don't have jessica report moving on now to vietnam, where the president knew, and soon folk has resigned. the governing communist party has blamed him for wrongdoing by officials in his administration during his time as a prime minister phones louis, as more from kuala lumpur, there had been speculation that vietnamese president unison for would leave his position. after 2 deputy prime ministers were asked to leave earlier this month. now these men had worked under him when he let government. these men have not been personally implicated, but they are being held responsible for corruption scandals by officials under them . and the government has launched a crackdown on corruption with hundreds of people caught up party members,

ministers, either prosecuted or disciplined. but analysts are calling this an unprecedented reshuffle within the communist party. now in vietnam, a one party state, all political changes of usually very carefully managed to give the impression of political stability and continuity. some analysts are saying that what this really looks like is a power play by the general secretary of the enemy's communist party. un full child who term is set to expire in 2026. so he holds the most prestigious position in the state, and the person tip to replace him is the president and shaun folk. and not only has johnson foot resigned, but he's also no longer a member of the politburo or the central committee of the vietnam communist party essentially leaving him powerless. and the other thing we have to watch for is what sort of impact this will have on the stability of the government going forward and also on the confidence of foreign investors. seeing that these 3 men,

the 2 deputy promised as andy president anson folk were seen at the very competent administrators, london, where senior policemen have hundreds of his officers are under investigation for lead sexual anthem messic abuse and could be fact. on monday, officer david curt peter goes to 24 counts of rape between 232020. he was dismissed after misconduct hearing on tuesday. the commissioner mark raleigh has apologized. i was going to abuse command up 30 percent more up and he didn't do that. within public an internal pails. he's generated more than 1050, more investigation we picked and i think every member, please stop and take off at the we have any historic flags against full, a big organism evolving, domestic abuse or, or such a violent. i'm sure some of those will turn out to be nothing a concern, but many of them will wilton excited to be a concern. and i've been candid,

i've got tens of thousands of untrusted men, women from god the he should be here on russell to go protests against peruse president dinner battiata showing no signs of easing demonstration, capital lemur, a calling for her resignation and new elections, weeks of violent protests broke out last month after a former present petro castillo was impeached and arrested. at least 42 people have been killed. teachers and venezuela, according on the government to increase their salary. hesitations were held in 6 cities, including the capital characters, and then on salary for a public school teacher is around $10.00 a month. aid agencies have warned that malnutrition amongst children in ecuador is spiraling out of control was half of all toddler's younger than 2 don't get enough to eat amongst indigenous can into the issue is even more prevalent. as alessandra ramp, yeti reports,

she via timberly my entire life has been one of subsistence one of 12 children she remembers going to bed with an empty stomach like and so my family struggled often . we didn't have enough food. sometimes we ate once a day, sometimes nothing at all. it was shameful. at times i went to bed hungry, so my younger siblings could eat. not much has changed cbs 8 months pregnant and unemployed or husband is employed as a bus assistant, but she says she struggles to feed 2 year old gail. elizabeth, both of her salary isn't enough for even one person. we spend the $200.00 he makes on food and necessities for my son, no clothes or anything else. sylvia stories are familiar, one among indigenous families, living high up in the andes region of june, but i so most meet less than half the national minimum wage of $480.00 a month. whether suffers from chronic levels of malnutrition, among children,

indigenous communities in remote areas, or especially vulnerable charities. say the coven, 19 pandemic, and soaring inflation of worse and the situation. what are the gathered law for out of every 10 children under the age of to suffer from chronic mal attrition and with it come growth issues and learning issues. this problem is much worse in rural areas and we believe than amber has doubled since the pandemic. the rising cost of living lead 2 weeks of protest by indigenous communities in june is back on for a while. since then, president guillermo lazarus pledge to spend $350000000.00 a year to improve healthcare in bill 6 services. but 2023 is expected to be tough for ecuador. as the government has imposed a stereotype, measures to tackle the budget deficit. giving families like seal be as little hope of ending the vicious cycle of hunger.